Thank you for taking part in this course. Your contributions and comments have made the course into a rich collaborative learning opportunity for everybody, including the course team!

Let’s reflect on everything you have learnt so far. You have developed skills to design and conduct a viable research project, as well as analyse your results, and think about ways of sharing your findings.

The course was designed to help you develop:

• a viable research question

• skills for data collection

• skills for analysing data

• an ethical research proposal

• impact with your research.

Conducting research is not easy, and it can take a lifetime to hone your skills, but it can be fun and very rewarding. The important thing is to start out as you mean to continue. Become a reflexive researcher, careful to consider your own role in the research and your responsibilities to your research participants and those who will use or benefit from your research.

This means being open to asking questions, and helping other researchers answer theirs.

UCL is carrying out research into thr impact of this course. We would like to know more about your experience of the course and how you are using the skills and knowledge you gained. If you have time, please complete this optional survey. It will take around 5-10 minutes depending on the detail of your answers.

Your responses will not be linked to your FutureLearn identity or your course activity. Summarised findings may be published in an academic journal. In any such publication your identity will not be disclosed. All the information collected from this survey will be stored and handled according to UCL’s Privacy Policy and researchers will work with anonymised datasets.

Thank you very much,

Diana and Eileen

Over to you

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As before, please ‘Like’ the other questions you would most like to have answered and the educators will post their replies to all the most popular questions.